To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize medical simulation enhancement programs, and for other purposes.

12/6/2007--Introduced.
Enhancing Safety in Medicine Utilizing Leading Advanced Simulation Technologies to Improve Outcomes Now Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to conduct and support research, evaluations, initiatives, and demonstration projects, and provide grants or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements, to enhance the deployment of medical simulation technologies and the incorporation of such technologies and equipment into medical, nursing, allied health, podiatric, osteopathic, and dental education and training protocols.
Requires the Director to:
(1) establish medical simulation centers of excellence;
(2) promote innovation by conducting and supporting research on complex or challenging medical simulation and interdisciplinary simulation technologies and developing an electronic clearinghouse of such technologies; and
(3) award grants for purchasing, incorporating, and deploying such technologies for training of physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, and qualified students. Establishes within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the Federal Medical Simulation Coordinating Council. Requires the Director to establish an advisory panel to make recommendations on how to structure programs established by this Act.


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Sponsor

• Rep. James Forbes [R, VA-4]
• and 14 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Sanford Bishop [D, GA-2]
  • Rep. John Boozman [R, AR-3]
  • Rep. Leonard Boswell [D, IA-3]
  • Rep. Steve Cohen [D, TN-9]
  • Rep. Thelma Drake [R, VA-2]
  • Rep. Tom Feeney [R, FL-24]
  • Rep. Patrick Kennedy [D, RI-1]
  • Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D, CA-16]
  • Rep. Edward Markey [D, MA-7]
  • Rep. Solomon Ortiz [D, TX-27]
  • Rep. Robert Scott [D, VA-3]
  • Rep. Christopher Shays [R, CT-4]
  • Rep. Jackie Speier [D, CA-12]
  • Rep. Timothy Walz [D, MN-1]
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Committees

• House Energy and Commerce
• 1 more
  • House Energy and Commerce
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December 06, 2007

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• Dec 06, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
• Dec 06, 2007: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
• Introduced on Dec 06, 2007.

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